CASTEIST & PATRIARCHAL SETUP OF SOCIETY CONTRIBUTED TO HONOUR KILLINGS

Recently A few months ago, the couple entered into an inter-caste marital union against the wishes of the family of sultanas, and the cost Nagaraju paid for marrying his love was his own’ life.’ Several cases like these, popularly known as ‘honour killing’, keep on hitting newspaper headlines across the length and breadth of the country now and then, wherein either the man or the woman, or in some cases, both, are murdered by their families, relatives, neighbours, village and caste panchayats for entering into an inter-caste marital alliance. so what are  the mains  reasons contributing to it 
Castiest Patriarchal Society 
Caste & Patriarchy have been dividing India between genders & people and one of the crimes that emerged in between these two setups was honour killing 
Women were ‘exchanged’ in marriages for gaining kingdoms and brokering deals of peace and patronage; women were prizes and booties to be won and devoured in war. It’s a circle that recognised the right to exercise patriarchal control over a woman’s body just as a sovereign would exercise territorial control over his piece of land. The circle operated by kings and chieftains, feudal lords, state councillors, priests and princes would confine a woman’s sexual and marriage rights within the narrow boundaries of kinship- and caste-approved provinces. Cross-caste and cross-religious marriages could occur only if the patriarchal lords would have material gains or career and ego boost out of it. 

Today’s honour killing crimes are rooted in such a collective memory of primordial, provincial patriarchy. It is operated by a nexus of current-day patriarchs—local panchayat bodies across North and South India (who do not have any legal agency) and known as khap panchayats in North India, local police and rich, upper-caste, landed gentry, each owing their allegiances to their caste. Marriage is thus a product of caste and gender dictatorship, one that is legitimised by traditional caste and village councils, and male members of the dominant caste of that locality. Collectively, they maintain the ‘order’ of society.
The ownership of the woman’s body that is so cherished by the family’s patriarchal heads as the site of their ‘honour’, and therefore as something that can be defined by a man of lower rank/religious outcaste problematises concepts of civil liberty, human rights, law and justice. As the notion of defilement is rooted in purity-pollution lines demarcated by caste, honour crimes are perpetrated against men of lower castes as a ‘legitimate’ punishment.
HONOUR AND ITS CULTURAL PACKAGING 
The ownership of the woman’s body that is so cherished by the family’s patriarchal heads as the site of their ‘honour’, and therefore as something that can be defined by a man of lower rank/religious outcaste problematises concepts of civil liberty, human rights, law and justice. As the notion of defilement is rooted in purity-pollution lines demarcated by caste, honour crimes are perpetrated against men of lower castes as a ‘legitimate’ punishment.
HOW CAN WE PREVENT THE HONOUR KILLINGS 
Strengthening the Criminal justice system by ensuring fast trail and speedy enforcement of punishments for performing this crime 
Police sensitisation:- Due to the patriarchal setup police administration are in the line with it and following patriarchal rules and enabling amplifying this kind of crime to be happen 
Society  accepts honour killing because of a lineant attitude of a value system which supports patriarchy it is because of the absence of family and community system in present-day life if this was revived and played a  level of transition between  this kind of issue will reduce the crime 
Politics around caste and patriarchy makes value system of society dumped so politics should focus on solution for these issues by demanding legilsations on criminalising honour killing 

So increase in honour killings makes pressure on the government to draft legislation but it needs data according to NCRB honour killing is not named as a major crime and there is a data deficient in this aspect of crime not only it to stop this kind of crime communities based and society driven solutions will help this honour killing to prevent 

CH.J.V.K.Sathya Swaroop

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